Latest Remoteworking Podcast Episodes
WLP361 Can Chatbots Affect Connection in Remote Teams?
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - June 27, 2024 06:24 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsA new player has entered the field in the world of work: generative AI. As remote teams increasingly rely on asynchronous communication, have AI chatbots become go-to resources for quick answers and idea validation? What does this mean for our workplace relationships and social skills? Maya M...
WLP360 Remote and Beyond: A New Landscape for the World of Work
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - June 13, 2024 05:54 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHost Pilar Orti talks to Henry O'Loughlin, founder of Buildremote. As he shares his journey from running a fully remote marketing agency to creating Buildremote, Henry discusses the pitfalls many companies faced during the pandemic and how his experience led him to develop a "remote operating sy...
Enhancing Psychological Safety and Communication in Your Organisation
The HRLocker Podcast - June 04, 2024 08:00 - 45 minutesWelcome to this episode of the HRLocker Podcast, specially tailored for HR managers and business owners keen on advancing their workplace environments. Today, we will discuss essential strategies for nurturing psychological safety and enhancing communication in your organisation. Our focus will ...
WLP359 We Geek Out on GenAI and May Recommendations
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - May 30, 2024 06:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn today’s episode, Pilar Orti welcomes regular guest Mark Kilby onto the show, to find out how he’s using generative AI. They share their personal experiences, preferences, and cautionary tales surrounding various AI tools. Plus, they have plenty of reading, listening and tool recommendations f...
WLP358 The Birth of Telework and The Persistent Quest for Change by Jack Nilles
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - May 16, 2024 06:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsToday’s show notes are a little bit different. We’d like to keep Jack’s story in his own words as much as possible, so we’re sharing a polished version of the transcript over at: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts /jack-nilles-telework Talking to our host Pilar Orti, Jack takes us...
WLP357 Team Narratives, Harnessing Technology and Social Learning
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - May 02, 2024 06:08 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn this episode, Pilar interviews Jaap Linssen, the founder of OrangeTrail, a company that helps organisations navigate change and adopt new ways of working. Jaap has been helping people in organisations collaborate and communicate through harnessing the power of technology since 2011. Through...
WLP356 April Monthly Reading and Listening (and Watching!) Recommendations
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - April 25, 2024 05:29 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsWe’ve struggled this month to create a collection around remote work, so we’ve gone a bit “around the edges” - but it’s still all relevant to our audience. There is much content around hybrid work at the moment, and it tends to have more of a “how to” angle to it , so we often give it a miss. ...
ESG Requirements: CSRD Mandates, Reporting Deadlines, and Funding
The HRLocker Podcast - April 19, 2024 09:00 - 23 minutesWelcome to the HRLocker Podcast, your go-to source for insightful discussions on the latest HR developments. Today, we delve into the realm of corporate responsibility and ESG, with a particular focus on the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and its implications for companies acro...
WLP355 Career Pivots, Team Connections and Work Life Identity
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - April 18, 2024 05:48 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn today’s episode, Pilar Orti interviews Amale Ghalbouni, a former executive strategy director turned coach. Amale shares her experiences navigating career pivots, rediscovering purpose, and helping individuals and teams foster deep human connections. They talk about the changing nature of work...
WLP354 What's Going On: Experiments in Networking
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - March 28, 2024 07:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMaya and Pilar discuss some of the ways in which remote workers are networking. And very special guest Matt Ballantine shares his experiment “100 coffees”. Recorded on 21 March 2024. To get in touch, head over to https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/contact-us Maya shares a recent event she...
National Menopause Summit: Driving Change with Sinead McNamara
The HRLocker Podcast - March 25, 2024 09:00 - 24 minutesWelcome to the HRLocker Podcast, we are joined by Sinead McNamara from the National Menopause Summit. In this episode, we dive into menopause, a subject that impacts many yet remains under-discussed in professional circles. Sinead shares details of the upcoming National Menopause Summit at th...
WLP353 Promises and Perils of Generative AI in Software Development
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - March 21, 2024 07:23 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn today’s episode, tech journalist Jennifer Riggins talks about the impact of generative AI on the world of software development, focusing on the challenges faced by DevSecOps teams in keeping up with the accelerated pace of code creation enabled by GenAI tools. She raises important questions a...
WLP352 The Impact of Remote Work on Culture and Collaboration
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - March 14, 2024 07:07 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsToday’s guest is Linda Redell, Head of Talents and Culture at the hybrid company Homelike. https://www.thehomelike.com/ With a diverse workforce spread across multiple countries, Linda and her team are responsible for maintaining the company culture and employee well-being. The shift to rem...
Advancing Women in Leadership: The Role of Education and Mentorship with Caroline O'Driscoll
The HRLocker Podcast - March 07, 2024 18:00 - 24 minutesWelcome to HRLocker Podcast, where we bring you conversations with experts in their field. To highlight International Women's Day we were delighted to have Caroline O'Driscoll, partner with Deloitte and co-founder of I Wish as our most recent guest. In this podcast, we had an amazing conversati...
WLP351 Laying Yourself Off as a Manager and Reading and Listening Recommendations March 2024
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - March 07, 2024 08:17 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsToday’s post is the audio companion to the Virtual not Distant monthly newsletter, which you can sign up to here. Every month, Pilar shares with readers articles she’s come across on the web, books she’s read (or is reading) and podcast episodes she’s listened to. And today, she’s joined by Marc...
WLP350 Being a Freelancer in Film and Theatre Production Design
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - February 29, 2024 06:47 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn this episode, Production Designer Kate Rance shares her diverse career spanning theatre and film. She compares design approaches across industries, her affinity for hands-on craft versus managing teams, and learning new skills through her eclectic projects. Kate and Pilar used to work toge...
WLP349 What's Going On: Digital Culture
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - February 22, 2024 07:07 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMaya and Pilar tackle the topic of "digital culture" in organisations, with this article as a springboard: "What is digital culture? The teams best prepared for change use modern digital communication tools, feel comfortable learning new ones and continually adapt how they work." By the tea...
WLP348 Nurturing Team Growth through Conscious Leadership
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - February 15, 2024 06:40 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn this episode, Barbara Mutedzi describes conscious leadership and its role in transitioning to remote work, with particular reference to her work in Zimbabwe. Throughout the episode, Barbara advocates for the need for leaders to embrace self-awareness, adaptability, and empathy to create m...
WLP347 Listening and Reading Recommendations February 2024
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - February 10, 2024 09:02 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsToday’s post is the audio companion to the Virtual not Distant monthly newsletter, and you can subscribe to it via email here. Every month, Pilar shares with readers articles she’s come across on the web, books she’s read (or is reading) and podcast episodes she’s listened to. The newsletter ...
WLP346 What's Going On: Can We Really Work from Anywhere?
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - February 01, 2024 06:39 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn today’s episode, Maya shares her challenges trying to embrace the “work from anywhere” spirit. Our co-hosts also talk about how the popularity of Chat GPT has opened up the need to reinvent education, how they’re using the bot and why we should all be vigilant when reading current research on...
BONUS: Our Course Navigating Asynchronous Communication is out
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - January 25, 2024 05:59 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHello dear listeners of the 21st Century Work Life podcast. This is a little bonus episode, what some would call, a piece of content marketing, as I’ve put it together to introduce you to our audio-first course, for managers and leaders of remote teams: Navigating Asynchronous Communication. And...
The New Domestic Violence Leave Policy: What HR Needs To Know
The HRLocker Podcast - January 19, 2024 14:00 - 43 minutesThe Government of Ireland has introduced domestic violence leave under the Work-Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023. On Monday, 27 November 2023, it became a legal requirement for employers to offer up to five days of paid leave over 12 months to employees affected by domestic vi...
WLP345 Growing A Lifestyle-Centric, Values-Driven Distributed Business
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - January 18, 2024 06:48 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn this episode, Pilar talks to Jeanna Barrett, founder and Chief Remote Officer at the fully distributed company FPS. Jeanna shares how she set up the company by following her values and aspiring lifestyle, as well as her approach to company culture, remote operations and how values influence h...
WLP344 How the 21st Century Work Life podcast is changing
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - January 12, 2024 16:45 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsPilar pops in for a quick solo show to let you know how the focus of the show is changing.
Happy New Year from the seafront!
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - January 02, 2024 12:58 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsA quick happy new year from Pilar, cradled by the sound of the sea.
WLP343 What’s Going On? Are We Moving Forwards or Backwards?
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - December 21, 2023 06:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIt’s the last episode of the year, and it’s very hard to break tradition! Maya and Pilar talk through some of the recent stories around remote work and the world of work and try to make up their minds as to whether we’re moving forward or backwards… Just as they’ve been doing over the last thr...
WLP342 Location and Schedule: Defining Remote Work in Your Organisation
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - December 07, 2023 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn this episode, Valentina Thörner talks about the importance of defining what “remote” means in an organisation, particularly around the dimensions of time and location. For a really good summary, check out https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/distributed-teams-matrix Connect wi...
Would you like to give feedback on "Time Management for Remote Workers"?
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - November 27, 2023 11:25 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHi, Pilar here. This is a very short announcement to let you know that I’ll be releasing soon a book on time management for remote workers. This is an experiment. I am co writing it with Chat GPT, but I think it's wonderful. And I can say that because I’ve mainly been working on this as an ...
WLP341 Whats Going On: Will Asynchronous Communication Save Remote Work?
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - November 23, 2023 06:44 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMaya and Pilar share their thoughts on the last two episodes, both of which covered different aspects of asynchronous communication. While some organisations are still struggling with incorporating a “good” version of async, others are getting ready to introduce AI. Where will it all end? Link...
WLP340 Public vs Private Online Groups: The Impact on Creativity
21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - November 09, 2023 05:09 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsWith the rise of online communities and digital platforms, the way we share, innovate, and co-create has evolved. Wietske van Osch, together with Burcu Bulgurcu recently published research, exploring the nuances of collaborative creativity in online spaces. Pilar came across the piece in the MIT...
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